Monday, February 18, 2008

OG at your SERVICE

While many in the City of Los Angeles took the day off to celebrate President's Day, OG N Services were in the neighborhood cleaning it up.

These photos were taken at the corner of 7th St. and San Julian St. The wall was dirty and drab before they started. As you can see, the message is clear. Leave crack alone. This is the beginning of a new mural. They promise to make it very colorful. It looks like they are off to a good start in keeping that promise.

They also swept the streets. That is OG, himself, sweeping the street. San Julian is the filthiest street on Skid Row. In fact, today between 5th and 7th streets, I can not remember when I saw it more dirty. OG and his men made the corner of 7th and San Julian look alot better.

Og is doing exactly what he said he was going to do when I did my first write up forblogdowntown..His organization is more than just basketball and he is proving it more and more.

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About Me

Living in downtown Los Angeles on a new adventure,
I landed on Skid Row in the month of February,2007, shell shocked and traumatized by the events of the previous months.
I entered a world full of many contrasts. Kind, caring supportive individuals. Cruel, blood sucking predators. Men and women who walk the streets with courageous dignity and those whose job it is to strip them of that dignity every day. A place of quaint warmth and beauty, and at the same time a harsh, cold and vicious jungle. I have experienced the toughest streets of Philadelphia and Harlem, New York as well as the shanty towns and favelas of Brazil. Yet nothing compares to what you feel when you are in Skid Row. Social Scientists from around the world come here to study it. Every social illness has its place in Skid Row. They come to learn about its effect on people. They leave learning more about themselves- their prejudices and the fear of what they do not know. There is nothing like it. This journal is about my experiences at the University of Skid Row.